A 75 minute hatha practice that invites you to experience the warm hearted feelings of "offering" your practice to someone you care about. Expect some challenging moments in this balancing, dynamic physical sequence before slowing things down for rest.
A practice designed to help you feel more connected to the present moment through purposeful attention to the body and the breath. Therapeutic tools include the calming, freeing experience of joint mobility, followed by a union of movement and breathing and strengthening with an exploration of balance to further focus the mind. Mindful relaxation closes this 50 minute class which can be practiced with the Spotify playlist “Grounded” found on my lisaddumas account
A 60 minute practice intended to “lighten” a heavier mood. Includes a breath technique and visualization to create space between thoughts and movements that invite the mind to focus and may create a more spacious feeling in the body.
A 60 minute slow and mindful hatha practice that invites you to practice the concept of accepting each moment as whole and enough. Explore your variations of postures as enough, your breath as enough, your body as enough. Nothing to be added or taken away.
When the events of the day ahead feel overwhelming, this short practice is designed to support a shift in perspective and the possibility of doing your day from a place of love and appreciation. Includes invigorating movement and a technique to cultivate more lightness and joy.
Why we meditate, best practices to center ourselves and prepare to "sit" including movement (asana) and breathwork (pranayama) and an exploration of meditation techniques including a restoring yoga nidra.
An ideal class to close the day using various techniques to call our energy back to the present moment. From there, we can discern our most efficient use of it. Expect mindful, grounding centering and movement intended to be an embodiment of the natural cycle of expansion and contraction.
A 60 minute hatha class that challenges the mind to focus on the different ways the body moves and the visualized paths the breath is taking. A perfect class for grounding your energy and attention back to yourself so you can decide the most efficient places to direct it.
A 15 minute standing practice intended to help overcome invasive thoughts that may prevent you from focusing on what you choose. Invitations to balance may require a wall or chair nearby.
In this 75 min hatha practice, you will be invited to explore the repetition of a mantra throughout. Discover how the inward repeating of a meaningful sound can shelter the mind from habitual, negative rumination as you move through movement and breath matched to the rhythm of the mantra.
To help you increase your meditation time incrementally, this practice builds on the 10 min meditation. It utilizes a technique where you will “watch” the breath and repeat 2 mantras with your awareness at 2 different locations of the body.
A 60 min moderate hatha experience inviting you to practice present-centered awareness. Through attention on body sensations and breath, we learn to compassionately observe what we sense and think rather than identify with thought patterns based on past conditioning. Prop: bolster or pillows
A deluxe practice full of therapeutic skills to assimilate the transition of the end of one year and the beginning of the next. Expect to explore the breath as inspiration to receive and release, along with mudras, symbolic movement and reflective self-inquiry.
A deluxe practice that begins and ends on the ground. Expect to prepare your joints for strengthening in postures that stay close to the mat. Once warm, we’ll move into a few yin and restorative shapes to balance the “yang” energy we experience in most hours of the day. Thoughts are also invited to slow and rest through several cues to “be here now”, an ideal evening practice
Gift yourself the time to move through this inspiring collection of tools to warm you up from the inside out, and the outside in. Feel how devotion, gratitude, and reflection can enlighten. Explore movement to enhance digestion and renew. Be guided through a breath practice and restoring yoga nidra meditation to restore and balance.
Our minds are built to look for what could go wrong, what we need to achieve and what to worry about. For busy modern humans, that can mean a feeling of overwhelm or even anxiety. This 75 minute practice teaches how to ground the mind in what is more uplifting but also very true through a breath technique, visualization and movement intended to create a lighter, more expansive physical sensation.
A short, accessible breath practice to relax the mind and body quickly. If it works for you, use it 3 times a day to help become more calm and content on the regular!
A 60 minute full practice with the intention of supporting posture, spinal alignment and upper back tension. There also virtually no pressure placed on the wrist joints, so it is a relief for an area that can get taxed while it is getting stronger. Expect to explore a mudra said to relax "tightness" in the upper back and a reflection on where in your life to "have your own back"
Start your day with this 20 minute practice that invites the mind to focus on the breath and an empowering mantra rather than the habitual thoughts we wake up with. Expect movement to ready the body and the core for a day of confidence followed by a mudra and short meditation. A reminder of the power within.
A 60 minute practice designed to help you shift gears from the workday to the evening hours. A mudra and breath technique is offered to support the wind down, the intention of letting go of the day is held throughout and the practice closes with deep relaxation to help you shift into nighttime activities feeling refreshed, present and at ease.